What is the ticket to work program?

What if you are disabled and receiving social security benefits but you still want to work? The Federal government has a program that might help you called the ticket to work program.

The Social Security Administrations gives out tickets to eligible beneficiaries. Who is eligible? You have to be over 18 and younger than 65. You also have to meet certain disability standards set up by the SSA. If you are getting federal cash benefits for blindness those payments wouldn’t stop under this program.

Once the beneficiary receives the ticket they may assign the ticket to an Employment Network or EN. What is an EN? An employment Network is a private or public entity that creates a partnership with the government to employ disabled workers. The EN can be a business or even one person. The entity will hire the disabled worker and when that worker surpasses a level of achievement set up by the government the EN will receive funding from the government.

The worker is free to choose any EN that is sanctioned by the government. The EN also has the option of choosing workers that they feel will best fit their needs.

State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies are automatically approved to provide services to workers under the TTW program. The SSA pays state VR for their services.

If you would like more information go to the The Work Site a SSA website that goes into detail about the TTW program.

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